This is the information page about the shipwreck Hms gracie fields, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 51 12.55 N,2 39.401 E (51.1325, 2.5103667)

 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

 

1. A-15 (possibly)
2. Apache
3. Ardmount
4. Auretta
5. Bourrasque
6. Bowsprite (bow section)
7. Bramden (possibly)
8. Clan macalister
9. Clan macneil (possibly)
10. Cmb 1
11. Cmb 71a
12. Dortmund
13. Douaisien (possibly)
14. Emeraude
15. Empire path
16. Etendard
17. Fennella
18. Fl5
19. Floride (probably)
20. G 96
21. Heinkel 111
22. Hm motor launch 561
23. Hms basilisk
24. Hms brilliant
25. Hms colsay
26. Hms gracie fields
27. Hms grafton
28. Hms grafton
29. Hms grenade
30. Hms keith
31. Hms plumpton (probably)
32. Hms sirius
33. Hms skipjack
34. Hms st abbs
35. Hms st achilleus (possibly)
36. Hms wakeful
37. Hms waverley
38. Hms whitley
39. Horst
40. Jaguar
41. John mahn
42. Kestrel
43. Keulse vaart iv
44. Kilmore
45. L'urtiga (possibly)
46. Laura
47. Lct(r) 457
48. Lorina
49. Lorina (possibly)
50. Lst 420 (stern section)
51. M 3610
52. Mariner (possibly)
53. Maurice
54. Mona's queen
55. Mont louis
56. Nashaba
57. Nautica ena
58. P 319
59. Putten
60. Queen of the channel (possibly)
61. Quo vadis
62. R.93 (possibly)
63. Ra.2 (possibly)
64. Rita
65. Robert l vann
66. Sabrina
67. Saint camille
68. Sampa
69. Senator holthusen
70. Sigurds faulbaums
71. Sperrbrecker no 141 (probably)
72. St fagan
73. Sterre der zee
74. Toquet
75. Torpilleur branlebas
76. Trifels
77. Tringa
78. U 11
79. Ub 29
80. Ub29
81. V 201 (possibly)
82. Vlaanderen (probably)
83. West-hinder
84. Wielingen ii (possibly)
85. Wielingen ltv
86. Wolf
87. Zeester

 

Name: HMS GRACIE FIELDS

Length 59.7 meter, width: 7.6 meter, draught: 2.4, tonnage 393 ton

Cause: Built in 1936. hired as minesweeper from 10.1939. bombed and sunk by german aircraft while assisting with evacuation of british expeditionary force from dunkirk.

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 9 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 2018

Details measurements/cartography: H0602/40 1.6.40 ABANDONED IN SINKING CONDITION IN 512000N, 020500E. (HMS PANGBOURNE, 30.5.40). H1545/64 14.3.73 WK FOUND BY SALVAGE VESSEL 'BARRACUDA' IN POSN 511242N, 023906E. (OSTEND NM 54(P)/73). NAVEAM ISSUED. H1554/64 15.3.73 SW 7MTRS IN 511236N, 023930E [EUR].(OSTEND NM 67/73).

- NM 688/73 H1310/85/8 19.8.84 LOCATED 4 MILES FROM EXTREME POINT NIEUWPORT HBR B'WATER & 3.22 MILES FROM NIEUWPORT BANK BUOY USING RADAR. DIVED ON 19.8.84. WK IS V BROKEN AND LIES IN TWO PARTS. THE SMALLER IS TO THE NE AND ABOUT 3MTRS HIGH. THE LARGER INCLUDES BOILERS WHICH STAND HIGH ABOVE THE SEABED. THOUGHT POSSIBLY TO BE A FRENCH TRAWLER. (J COULON, 25.1.85). FR WK RECORD NO.21612206 GIVES POSN AS 511242N, 023930E [EUR]. NCA YET. H1310/86/24 6.10.86 WK IN 511240N, 023920E IDENTIFIED AS GRACIE FIELDS. 3 PDR SHELL RECOVERED. (J COULON, 15.9.86). NCA. H1310/88/25 22.4.88 IDENTIFICATION CONFIRMED. (P FABIEN, 2.4.88). NCA. HH342/001/92 4.6.92 EXAM'D 15.5.92 IN 511242N, 023930E [EUR]. LEAST DEPTH OBTAINED NOW 4.8MTRS. (OSTEND NM 181(T)/92). NCA. HH342/710/02 22.6.94 HH342/710/02 22.6.94 WK 4.7MTRS SHOWN IN 511242N, 023930E [EUR] ON BELGIAN 102 [1994 EDN].

- NM 2400/94. HH342/710/03 26.6.95 NOW IN 511236N, 023929E [EUR]. (BELGIAN NM 12/112/95). BR STD. SEP 2010/000138707 18.10.10 SHOWN AS WK 4.6MTRS [LAT] IN 5112.550N, 0239.401E [WGD] ON BELGIAN 102 [NE 1.6.10, 1:60,000].
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Commentaar onderzoeker: IN TWO PARTS, BOILERS HIGHEST POINT

Position: 51 12.55 N,2 39.401 E

 

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